Soft skills lessons and activities for high school transition and life skills
Resource Description
Soft skills (also known as employability skills) are vital in any workplace. Help your high school students with college and career readiness with these no prep soft skills worksheets and activities in a ready to teach soft skills unit - perfect for transition, career and technical education (CTE), life skills or vocational programs.
What are soft skills?
Soft skills are personal skills you can build over time, then transfer from one place to another. Many employers look for workers who can show they have good soft skills - things like communication, teamwork and being part of a diverse group working towards a shared goal. Soft skills sit alongside hands on, technical skills to make a complete skills package. Sometimes young people forget just how important soft skills are when they are applying for work, but they can make the difference between getting an interview or succeeding in getting a first job, and not.
What's inside?
30 printable pages that you can download, print and use as a complete soft skills unit for your students, including:
- Activities to do in class
- Internet research tasks
- Scenario based learning
- Collaborative activities for pairs or small groups
Who is it for?
Career and Technical Education
Transition
Vocational Programs
Work Education
New for 2025
This is a new soft skills resource, ready to use in your 2025 / 2026 school year.
What to do
Introduce soft skills to your students.
Talk about career and college readiness skills for the future.
Download the soft skills worksheets and activities.
Print or share the pages with your own class or group.
Work through the activities in the order you prefer, using pacing that works for your students and learning program.
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